We woke up to this today. It appears winter is here. I think I’ll try doing a little Photoshop effects on this photo. So more on this later.

 We’re supposed to have lots of snow this winter because of La Nina. Great for skiing which starts in about three weeks.

Here’s a little sneak peak of what I worked on last week for Liz. It’s her door page. I sent it off today so you’ll see the entire page once she receives it.

 I’m taking the skinny mini free Photoshop class from Kim Klassen.

 And boy is it fun to play around with layers and adding textures.

Now I finally have something to do with all those photos of different textures that I take.

 Look at all the wonderful things that I received from Cobi in the Netherlands yesterday!

 Here’s my tree page. She made the tree with puff paint.

 Here’s a close up of the texture in the puff paint which is wonderful. I love the colors she chose.

Here’s the back – she’s called the page “Summer is Over” after a song that she wrote out for me in the top photo. Thanks so much Cobi!

 On Friday, my local fiber group met at my house. We talked about line and did an exploratory marks exercise. Using a variety of objects, we used walnut ink to make various lines. The point was to try and make as many different kinds of line as possible.

 This is the box of “tools” that we used to make our lines.

 Here’s the group busy nuno felting with their sanders. None of them had nuno felted before so I was kept busy helping out. I didn’t make anything but they all made scarves. Sadly, I didn’t manage to get any other photos. But a good time was had by all.

 Here are some cards that I made with the marbled paper that I made last month.

I think I’ll add some more to these but I had them cut to the right size so I glued them on to the cards.

 And a few more.

 This is the other thing I’ve been doing. Stocking up on cat toys. Need to have them ready for all those Christmas shoppers.

 All nice and fuzzy in bright colors!

I made a flat piece of felt and added silk noil on the top. I’m going to be making Christmas ornaments and presents out of this so more on this later. It was really hard to get a decent photo and this one is still pretty blurry. Hope you all had a nice weekend!

 Here’s the page that I made for October. The theme is windows for Elizabeth. This is based on the stained glass windows at the Presbytarian Church in Whitefish. I painted two pieces of lutradur. I used one piece as the background and then cut the other piece up into small pieces. I then free motion stitched all the pieces down on to the background and applied commercial felt around the windows.

 This is the back. I had to put a piece of paper on the back because I didn’t get the front and back lined up well the first time around.

And  here it is in the sunshine so you can see that it is translucent. I wanted to  make it look like a real window and I’m pleased with how it turned out.